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As good as he played, and has been playing this year, I was most impressed with his assertive and mature handling of Petty's episode - wasting no time to call for assistance despite being a junior player.

I was again impressed with our level headedness in the last couple of mins. Good work winding the clock down, slowing things down, etc.

Chandler great work especially in the last.

Langford one fumble in the first, but fantastic work thereafter.

How good are Mihochek and Fritta combining?

Great to see some clunks and goals from JVR.

Great work Dees keep it up!

Weren't people telling us Chin was no good?

Rooooooooo!!!!!!!!

PETTY!!!!!!! FFS!!!!!

Just now, Dee Vinci said:

Petty is just lost out there. slow, fumbly, dropping marks and turnovers plenty.

He's looking atrocious.

Stick a tackle Jeffo FFS

Epically woeful kick Petty.

Villain to hero Langford :-)

34 minutes ago, Coolx2 said:

Why does a player like Heath come to a club just to be kept as a backup or a long term emergencies?

Heath is a 23yo that got pushed down St Kilda's ruck pecking order by their importing of a 26yo De Konig, and he's come to a club whose two main rucks on the list are both 34yo, one of whom is a peerless titan of the game he could learn greatly from.

27 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Me and my fellow trackies smell a debut in the air.

Like as in a first Melbourne game (Heath) or a bona fide debut (XT or Luker)??? The suspense is killing me!

2 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Earlier in the year Bowser said he was looking at returning for round 7. Today he said more likely it’ll be round 9. He said injury-wise he’s fine, he just needs to get up to the required fitness level. He’s absolutely keen to be back playing again.

Any word on how Viney is tracking, Ghosty?

2 minutes ago, Temporarily Hopeful Demon said:

ANB ❤️

I miss Nibbler 😥

5 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Jai has signed on until the end of 2028!

This is great, he's settled in so well into the team. Well and truly taken his opportunity.

Great news!

14 minutes ago, adonski said:

"If Fritsch gets through training he'll play"

So sounds like Melky is definitely playing this weekend irrespective of Fritta's availability - presumably Laurie would make way then?

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to @binman for filling the breech solo these weeks; it was great to hear your thoughts and analysis on a fantastic win during a time of excitement and change for the team.

Thanks too to Andy @Demonland for taking the time out of your travels to facilitate the continuation of the pod while you're away.

13 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Media refusing to give us credit still what will it take before we get taken seriously, saying it’s due to gc having an off game not because we made them play 4qtrs

Not what ABC radio was saying. They were loving our attacking play right to the death and were gushing that we were playing the kind of footy they liked to see.

9 minutes ago, BoBo said:

So you are allowed to play a non-emergency named player but you get a fine?

Correct. The Pies did that against us a few years ago as one example I can recall.

17 minutes ago, layzie said:

Confession time.

I thought about not doing this. I don't want to make things about me. I don't want to draw attention to myself, if you want to have a pop at me go for it (although it's unlikely I'll read it). It's hard to lie here and although I don't know a lot of people here personally, I do like to share occasionally.

I left the game early yesterday. As with most other people it's something I hate doing. During the Goodwin top 4 runs, footy came first and I blew off a lot of family events to attend games and watch them. That night in early 2023 when Max was injured up in Brisbane I walked out of the restaurant at my brother's birthday and didn't come back. In the last year I've really thought about my relationship with supporting this club and as much as I love it I don't want to be married to it. I'm going to be a parent next month and my mum just finished several rounds of chemo. I see this time as one to still be a good fan but repay the debt a little. There was a chance I wasn't going to make it at all to this game but living close by I did want to make an appearance for Max and Tom.

I left during the third quarter to get home and be with my partner. It wasn't due to losing because as you know we were coming back. I still watched on and despite a big fluff up in the stream just before Langford kicked the go-ahead goal, I loved every bit of it and couldn't have been more proud.

I take being a supporter seriously. I stayed to the end in 08 against Freo, same with Brisbane in 23 when we were nearly 4 goals down with 6 mins to go. Maybe I'm not the biggest and best Demons fan right now but life has it's ebbs and flows.

To those of you there till the end, you're awesome. Truly awesome.

That's all.

Life trumps football. 👍

Is the lid off?

We're back in the 8. Yeah!

What an epic choke by Carlton.

Voss, do the honourable thing and resign.

How is that not dropping the ball